BEAUTY in Classic Quotes

1  His eyes mocked her, even while they complimented her beauty.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII

2  How the ladies must have worked today to bring it to its present beauty.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

3  The past week with its shimmering, dreamlike beauty, its crowded hours of happiness, was gone.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

4  She looked so strangely, and there was a wild beauty about her white face that set his heart leaping.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

5  And each time he came, a little package in his hand and a compliment for her charm and beauty on his lips, she wilted.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII

6  She quickly brought order, dignity and grace into Gerald's household, and she gave Tara a beauty it had never had before.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

7  Scarlett loved Twelve Oaks even more than Tara, for it had a stately beauty, a mellowed dignity that Gerald's house did not possess.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

8  Mrs. Elsing was younger, a thin frail woman, who had been a beauty, and about her there still clung a faded freshness, a dainty imperious air.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

9  A heavy warm somnolence lay over the house, as if it slept at ease like the girls, until night when it would burst into its full beauty with music and candle flames.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

10  They were all beautiful with the blinding beauty that transfigures even the plainest woman when she is utterly protected and utterly loved and is giving back that love a thousandfold.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

11  When she arose at last and saw again the black ruins of Twelve Oaks, her head was raised high and something that was youth and beauty and potential tenderness had gone out of her face forever.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV

12  And she thought with a tingling in her heart how she and Ashley might ride swiftly through this beauty of blossom and greenery this very afternoon, or tonight by moonlight, toward Jonesboro and a preacher.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V

13  Their beauty she accepted as casually as the air she breathed and the water she drank, for she had never consciously seen beauty in anything but women's faces, horses, silk dresses and like tangible things.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II

14  But tonight, because of the exaltation of her own spirit, Scarlett found in the whole ceremonial, the softly spoken words, the murmur of the responses, a surpassing beauty beyond any that she had ever experienced before.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

15  Scarlett stood in her apple-green "second-day" dress in the parlor of Twelve Oaks amid the blaze of hundreds of candles, jostled by the same throng as the night before, and saw the plain little face of Melanie Hamilton glow into beauty as she became Melanie Wilkes.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII

16  It all seemed wild and untamed to her coast- bred eyes accustomed to the quiet jungle beauty of the sea islands draped in their gray moss and tangled green, the white stretches of beach hot beneath a semitropic sun, the long flat vistas of sandy land studded with palmetto and palm.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

17  Now Ashley was going away, back to Virginia, back to the long marches in the sleet, to hungry bivouacs in the snow, to pain and hardship and to the risk of all the bright beauty of his golden head and proud slender body being blotted out in an instant, like an ant beneath a careless heel.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV